It’s all the fault of John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006), who per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money was a New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University known for his research on human sexual behavior and gender.
Money advanced the use of more accurate terminology in sex research, coining the terms gender role and sexual orientation. Despite widespread popular belief, Money did not coin the term gender identity. Money pioneered drug treatment for sex offenders to extinguish their sex drives.
Since the 1990s, Money's work and research has been subject to significant academic and public scrutiny. A 1997 academic study criticized Money's work in many respects, particularly in regard to the involuntary sex-reassignment of the child David Reimer. Money allegedly coerced David and his brother Brian to perform sexual rehearsal with each other, which Money then photographed. David Reimer lived a troubled life, ending with his suicide at 38 following his brother's suicide.
Money believed that transgender people had an idée fixe, and established the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic in 1965. He screened adult patients for two years prior to granting them a medical transition, and believed sex roles should be de-stereotyped, so that masculine women would be less likely to desire transition. Money is generally viewed as a negative figure by the transgender community.
Money's writing has been translated into many languages and includes around 2,000 articles, books, chapters and reviews. He received around 65 honors, awards and degrees in his lifetime.
Too intellectual. Please spare me.
Gender is a grammatical term. In grammar, nouns, pronouns and adjectives come in one of three genders - masculine, feminine and neuter. Anybody who’s studied Latin or one of the inflected languages like Spanish knows this.
Sex is a biological term. In biology, biota - animals and plants - come in two sexes - male and female. The communists and malcontents who want to destroy civilization intentionally muddle reality by inventing additional sexes, calling them “genders”. There is no such thing.
“Gender” was the noun form of “sex” until the leftists started messing with the language to suit their twisted agenda.
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So, using the word “gender” for sexual things comes from the ‘50s?
Eeeehhhh, ok then, that’s a no. Far too recent to be valid. Not much “history”.
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John Money, like Alfred Kinsey, was a true predator under the guise of a researcher. He was active when I was in grad school in late 60s early 70s, even then he was considered kind of bizarre and out of the mainstream. Now that his real unethical misconduct has been revealed, he should be condemned.
Btw at that time, “gender” was not a term used by psychologists. The terms used were sex, sexual identity, and sex-role enactment. You were a male or a female, identified as a male or a female, congruent with your biology, and lived your life as one or the other, defined by prevailing social norms.
Nothing remotely like “transgenderism” was recognized except as a rare psychiatric disability; transvestism, ie cross dressing, or “drag,” was understood as a sexual aberration, not in the normal range of lifestyle choices. But that was back when psychology aspired to a level of rationality and scientific rigor no longer seen today.
Politicization and feminization has pretty well destroyed the field, and we all have seen the consequences.
Gender and sex were ALWAYS interchangeable words.
Until the last ten years, the word gender NEVER described how people express their status as male or female.